ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,425, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding purchase data using an image" was invented by Jose Javier Yebes Torres (Valladolid, Spain), Aditi Sinha (Weehawken, N.Y.), Christine Lebrun (Paris), Fabio Oppini (Milan), Atul Bansal (New York), Mukul Kumar (New York), Vignesh Chandramouli (New York), Filipa Sousa (New York) and Gisella Mercaldi (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that decode purchase data using an image. An example apparatus includes proc...